Events This Week

All events at Common Good Books unless noted. 165 Western Avenue North, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102 651.225.8989 Full events listing available at CommonGoodBooks.com Monday, July 20, 2009 6:00 p.m. Common Good Book Club Reads German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons Click Here for More Information Monday, July 20, 2009 7:30 p.m. Julie Kramer, Missing Mark Riley Spartz is back! Julie Kramer will celebrate the publication of her new book, Missing Mark at Common Good Books, and you are invited to the party. As the Booklist reviewer notes, "Issues of class, complications of a rare medical condition, and elements of romance add to the interest of this sequel, which has a surprising final twist and a neatly satisfying ending. Kramer has a winning series here." Click Here for More Information Click Here for the Book Trailer Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:30 p.m. J.C. Hallman, The Hospital for Bad Poets "In a nutshell, the amazing stories in J.C. Hallman's collection ...are not unlike pop parables for our times, or magical puzzles, and they are witty, intelligent, inventive, satirical, farcical, and finally full of a profound seriousness of purpose, not to mention as funny as a barrel full of philosophers. Imagine Woody Allen trick-or-treating in a Kafka (or maybe Nietzsche) mask, going story-to-story pretending to be Average Man merely disguised as a secret solipsist, as he attempts to unriddle the absurdity of ordinary Halloweened life for a laugh." --Chuck Kinder Click Here for More Information